Hello,

I am starting out with the ABRSM exercises for Grade 6 and have some completed answers, but with no piano to hand am having trouble working out if what they sound like (one flute aint good enough!).

Anyone know of any good software that can accept a melody line from the user, then a list of chord symbols - like Ib V etc ?

I have Sibelius but it won't do the above exactly - although it is useful for when I do my SATB fully realised figured bass examples. In this case I don't want to go through every scenario with my workngs trying to find a good chord progression if I have to write out each chord tone every time!

Cheers

Hi mcentee2,

Can you play the piano? If so, maybe the virtual keyboard will help you.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_...piano/index.htm

If you want to use the mouse, you can use "chord mode" and then "play chord". The notes you depress will be "stuck" until you click "play chord".

If you want to use the computer keyboard, just treat the letter "A" as middle C, "W" as C# etc.

Does this do the job for you?

The latest version of my music publisher has playback of chord symbols but as I'm waiting for it to arrive in the post I don't know if it does inversions too.
Depends if you needed a music publishing programme though.
You can find more information here.

Thanks for the suggestion - it is useful to sound out actual single chords so I can hear differences between inversions - but its far too slow a process for me to usefully hear a progression along with the melody

Ta though.

I am thinking my Band in a Box may help out - although I am not sure how to enter my own melody yet - and also I haven't quite got it to go into "simple" mode and just play the chords I set without it trying to improvise between them.